Adding Manual Relationships Between Tables in the TDM Subsetter

I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and a follow up post on using your own backup. One of the things...

Partial Backups I

Trust is a Funny Thing

Steve has a few thoughts on trust, both with co-workers and Gen AI systems.

A New Word: Tangency

tangency– n.  a fleeting glimpse of what might have been. I tend to live in the real world as it is, not too dreamy or wishful that things were...

Counting Bits III

Creating a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner

I had to demo the Flyway Autopilot system recently and created a GitHub Actions runner as a part of that. This post documents how this went. First, if you...

Moving On After a Technology Fail

After his watch broke, Steve had to get a new tool and isn't sure it was a good move.

A Simple Choice

Is Ransomware Fading?

There is a report that less ransomware ransom is being paid. Perhaps that's a good sign for all of us.

Making a PostgreSQL Backup in a Container

I needed to back up a PostgreSQL database as a part of the repro for an issue I had. I hadn’t ever made a backup of PostgreSQL, so this...